The Oakland Book Festival is a one-day, annual literary event. Dedicated to books, ideas, and the pleasures of literacy, it aims to serve the reading public, to encourage debate, and to celebrate the City of Oakland. It will host more than ninety writers in 2017 and is free and open to the public.

Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, will be in conversation with Clara Jeffery for the program "Trump and the Working Class."